Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Vol. 5 Ere I come to the particulars of these transactions between God the Father and the Son for our salvation, I will premise some (general Observa tions out of the text, which shall make way for what follows. The great business Of reconciliation (as I said) is both the subject of the gospel and of this text, which tells us Of those two great persons by whom this great business was transacted, and brought to such a pass, as men may come to be reconciled, and friends with God again; and what they are, that is, God the Father, the party wronged and injured, and Christ the means of reconciliation, the umpire and mediator between both God was in Christ reconciling the world.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.